Sunday, August 26, 2012

Summer in the City

We've been hard at work swanning about all summer, so we decided to take a little breather today, and are doing a short (but sweet!) post.

As Labor Day fast approaches, once again, we're wondering "Where did the summer go?" We continue to have lots of fun and the weather can be expected to stay hot and sunny for a while. But just like school children everywhere, we still get that "back-to-school" twinge as August threatens to stretch into September.(Do we ever outgrow our school year inner calendars?) When we were in Brooklyn for the Anna Piaggi picnic, Valerie couldn't resist perching on one of a line up of cement orbs. Jean imitates the expression of the image on a black and white poster under scaffolding outside La MaMa Theater in the East Village.

After one of our recent jaunts in Soho, we stopped into The Diner (yes, that's really its name) on the Bowery just north of The New Museum. It has lots of stainless steel, high ceilings, interesting photographs on the walls, good french fries and tasty cocktails. Great nostalgic kitschy look! Just wish we could remember exactly what we were having. It is a safe bet that Jean's drink contained tequila and Valerie's contained some bubbly.

Just had to share photos of Ariel Krupnick on St. Mark's Place! We met him at the Yayoi Kusama reception at The Whitney Museum. On this occasion, he was on his way to a dinner party, wearing a blue and white toile suit and tie with red and white toile shirt and jacket cuffs.

To accent the red cuffs, he had painted his finger nails fire engine red. And note the fab Miro umbrella.

He also painted red toe nails onto what looked like white canvas shoe coverings with individual outlines of toes sewn across the front. Needless to say, it is quite the look.

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